Definition of float

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Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.

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Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
Podoscaph :: Podoscaph (n.) A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water..
Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Floatiersman :: Floatiersman (n.) A man living on the frontier.
Cymophanous :: Cymophanous (a.) Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant..
Natant :: Natant (a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants..
Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule
Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..
Ambergris :: Ambergris (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ Fah
Levitate :: Levitate (v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table..
Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..
Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..
Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.
Supernatural :: Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.
Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Buoy :: Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..
Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Natatory :: Natatory (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs..
Float :: Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
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